David Leveaux
| David Leveaux | |
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13 December 1957 Leicester, England, United Kingdom |
David Leveaux (born 13 December 1957) is a British theatre director who has been nominated for five Tony Awards as director of both plays and musicals. He directs both in the UK, working at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Almeida Theatre, and the Donmar Warehouse, on Broadway, and also in Tokyo.
Leveaux was born in Leicester and raised in Derby in the Midlands, the son of a cardiologist. He read English language and literature at Manchester University.
In his early 20s, Leveaux became assistant to Peter Gill at Riverside Studios. When the Studios became bankrupt he was one of a group who occupied the building illegally to keep it running until it was reestablished legitimately. While taking a break in New York City, he discovered Eugene O'Neill's play, A Moon for the Misbegotten, and revived it at Riverside, starring Frances de la Tour and Ian Bannen. The production transferred to the West End and Broadway (1984).
Subsequently he directed Therese Raquin at Chichester, Anna Christie in London and on Broadway, and Romeo and Juliet for the Royal Shakespeare Company. At the Almeida Theatre he directed Harold Pinter's No Man's Land, Moonlight, Betrayal and Neil LaBute's The Distance From Here (2002).
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